Vivienne Westwood's Get a Life and Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein, by John Nixon, a former C.I.A. agent who interviewed the Iraqi leader and came to believe that he had been misunderstood.GirlfriendsHis friend Pamela... Read more

a lengthy article in The New Yorker. Author Michael Pollan began by relating some of the experiments conducted by a former C.I.A polygraph expert, Cleve Backster, which were chronicled in the 1973 bestseller, The Secret Life of Plants.
Backster... Read more

States government could also turn to other covert means to change the North Korean government. In July, Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, said: “As for the regime, I am hopeful we will find a way to separate that regime from this system.” He... Read more

to several administration officials, has been considering a shake-up that could include appointing Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, to take over as national security adviser, while sending General McMaster to command forces in Afghanistan.... Read more

to several administration officials, has been considering a shake-up that could include appointing Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, to take over as national security adviser, while sending General McMaster to command forces in Afghanistan.... Read more

captain could not torture me anymore because I gave him what he wanted. Now he had to sell this-- first to the F.B.I., to C.I.A. And then they have to sell this to the prosecution, military prosecution, and those people are intelligent and smart.... Read more

creating a documentary film about the Indigenous community.
The idea for the film camp started a year-and-a-half ago for C.I.A Solutions’ Len Morissette and his team.
Telus Storyhive, a national program that funds community projects through... Read more

Long History of Watching White House Critics
Newsweek published this story about a presidential commission report on the C.I.A.’s domestic activities under the headline of “Who’s Watching Whom” on June 23, 1975. In light of recent events,... Read more

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Why Spies Love Businessfor coöperation and its reward.
“There’s a natural fit between business and in

for coöperation and its reward.
“There’s a natural fit between business and intelligence,” Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former C.I.A. operative who runs intelligence and defense projects at Harvard’s Kennedy School, told me. Spies carefully assess the... Read more

have met even much more than just three times
Lavrov also said the U.S. presence in Syria was illegitimate and accused C.I.A director Mike Pompeo of having “double standards” regarding the establishment of military bases in the country.
He... Read more

at the Kremlin in Moscow on October 20, 2015. (ALEXEY DRUZHININ/AFP/Getty Images)
Bob Baer, one of the most regarded C.I.A. officers in history, security analyst for CNN, and author of ‘See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the... Read more

to the security relationship with the United States, according to current and former United States officials.
Days later, C.I.A. officials briefed the White House on their concern that the ouster of Mohammed bin Nayef and the possible removal of... Read more

idol,” reconstructing his childhood in Jamaica and investigating the theory that his death was the result of a C.I.A. assassination effort. His mother and his wife have written memoirs about living with him, as have touring musicians... Read more

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The New Yorker

What the Obamas Like to Watchknow what you need?” Barack said. “Channel 45.”
“Oh, yes!” Michelle said. When

know what you need?” Barack said. “Channel 45.”
“Oh, yes!” Michelle said. When Donald Trump won the election, the C.I.A., as a safety measure, had secretly installed cameras in all areas that would become part of the President-elect’s... Read more

at worst, showed a willingness to collude with Moscow to tilt the election. Michael Morell, a former acting director of the C.I.A., told the Cipher Brief, a Web site that covers national-security issues, that Trump, Jr.,’s e-mails are “huge” and... Read more

within his own country. When two foes conspire to destroy Wakanda, the hero known as Black Panther must team up with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje, Wakanadan special forces, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged... Read more

Habitat. I wish him a speedy recovery.
So did the 41st president. George H.W. Bush, who, in his pre-Oval Office days, as C.I.A. director, traveled to tiny Plains, Ga., to brief Democratic presidential nominee Carter in 1976, used his spokesman’s... Read more

in 2019 elections.
Hekmatyar, a warlord, who is known for receiving the bulk of arms and financisl assistance from the C.I.A. to defeat the Soviets and was seen as close to Pakistani government and ISI, is although supporting President Ghani... Read more